The Veterans, Juniors and Ladies group start first
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The Senior 3 riders, will have a job pulling back the 1 mins 30 secs gap
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The Senior 2 riders start at 3 minutes
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An finally the Senior 1 scratch group start at 4 mins 30 secs back
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The leading vets group make the most of their advantage
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The senior 3's
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The S2 group
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The S1 group is the smallest group of the nearly 200 starters
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We move on to the Kyber Pass, this is were the action will happen, already on lap 3 some vets are going clear of the limit group
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the rest of the limit group
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The next group of Senior 3's
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The S2 group
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And the Scratch
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On lap 4 - Three vets in the lead with two more chasing
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The other groups are closing up behind
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A few S2 riders go ahead of their group
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The S1 scratch group
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2 laps to go - The five leaders have joined up
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The rest are all together now and one minute behind
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The leaders with just over a lap to go
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The S1 riders have got past the rest and are 46 seconds down
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Eddie Lynch wins the Paddy Sullivan Memorial in the Phoenix Park in a time of 48' 30"
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3rd, 4th and 5th finishers
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The scratch sprint it out for 6th place
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The scratch finishing only 12 secs down - their race time was 44' 12"
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